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Object handover is an important skill that we use daily when interacting with other humans. To deploy robots in collaborative setting, like houses, being able to receive and handing over objects safely and efficiently becomes a crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daniel Frau-Alfaro , Julio Castaño-Amoros , Santiago Puente , Pablo Gil , Roberto Calandra

The ability to robustly grasp a variety of objects is essential for dexterous robots. In this paper, we present a framework for zero-shot dynamic dexterous grasping using single-view visual inputs, designed to be resilient to various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hui Zhang , Zijian Wu , Linyi Huang , Sammy Christen , Jie Song

Universal dexterous grasping across diverse objects presents a fundamental yet formidable challenge in robot learning. Existing approaches using reinforcement learning (RL) to develop policies on extensive object datasets face critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Ziye Huang , Haoqi Yuan , Yuhui Fu , Zongqing Lu

Dexterous grasping remains a fundamental yet challenging problem in robotics. A general-purpose robot must be capable of grasping diverse objects in arbitrary scenarios. However, existing research typically relies on restrictive…

Dexterous hands exhibit significant potential for complex real-world grasping tasks. While recent studies have primarily focused on learning policies for specific robotic hands, the development of a universal policy that controls diverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Haoqi Yuan , Bohan Zhou , Yuhui Fu , Zongqing Lu

We use reinforcement learning (RL) to learn dexterous in-hand manipulation policies which can perform vision-based object reorientation on a physical Shadow Dexterous Hand. The training is performed in a simulated environment in which we…

General-purpose robotic manipulation, including reach and grasp, is essential for deployment into households and workspaces involving diverse and evolving tasks. Recent advances propose using large pre-trained models, such as Large Language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Huiyi Wang , Fahim Shahriar , Alireza Azimi , Gautham Vasan , Rupam Mahmood , Colin Bellinger

Learning a generalist control policy for dexterous manipulation typically relies on large-scale datasets. Given the high cost of real-world data collection, a practical alternative is to generate synthetic data through simulation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ruixing Jin , Zicheng Zhu , Ruixiang Ouyang , Sheng Xu , Bo Yue , Zhizheng Wu , Guiliang Liu

Robotic manipulation policies often struggle to generalize to novel objects, limiting their real-world utility. In contrast, cognitive science suggests that children develop generalizable dexterous manipulation skills by mastering a small…

Physics-based manipulation in clutter involves complex interaction between multiple objects. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning, from interaction in a physics simulator, manipulation skills to solve this multi-step…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Wissam Bejjani , Mehmet R. Dogar , Matteo Leonetti

Universal grasping with multi-fingered dexterous hands is a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. While recent approaches successfully learn closed-loop grasping policies using reinforcement learning (RL), the inherent difficulty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoqi Yuan , Ziye Huang , Ye Wang , Chuan Mao , Chaoyi Xu , Zongqing Lu

Bimanual dexterous manipulation is a critical yet underexplored area in robotics. Its high-dimensional action space and inherent task complexity present significant challenges for policy learning, and the limited task diversity in existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Bohan Zhou , Haoqi Yuan , Yuhui Fu , Zongqing Lu

In this work, we aim to learn a unified vision-based policy for multi-fingered robot hands to manipulate a variety of objects in diverse poses. Though prior work has shown benefits of using human videos for policy learning, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Etienne Arlaud , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

The ability to manipulate tools significantly expands the set of tasks a robot can perform. Yet, tool manipulation represents a challenging class of dexterity, requiring grasping thin objects, in-hand object rotations, and forceful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Kushal Kedia , Tyler Ga Wei Lum , Jeannette Bohg , C. Karen Liu

Dexterous hands enable concurrent prehensile and nonprehensile manipulation, such as holding one object while interacting with another, a capability essential for everyday tasks yet underexplored in robotics. Learning such long-horizon,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hao Jiang , Yue Wu , Yue Wang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Daniel Seita

In principle, reinforcement learning and policy search methods can enable robots to learn highly complex and general skills that may allow them to function amid the complexity and diversity of the real world. However, training a policy that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Ali Yahya , Adrian Li , Mrinal Kalakrishnan , Yevgen Chebotar , Sergey Levine

Many real-world manipulation tasks consist of a series of subtasks that are significantly different from one another. Such long-horizon, complex tasks highlight the potential of dexterous hands, which possess adaptability and versatility,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yuanpei Chen , Chen Wang , Li Fei-Fei , C. Karen Liu

Dexterous manipulation, which refers to the ability of a robotic hand or multi-fingered end-effector to skillfully control, reorient, and manipulate objects through precise, coordinated finger movements and adaptive force modulation,…

The generalization ability of visuomotor policy is crucial, as a good policy should be deployable across diverse scenarios. Some methods can collect large amounts of trajectory augmentation data to train more generalizable imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Hanwen Wang

Can we endow visuomotor robots with generalization capabilities to operate in diverse open-world scenarios? In this paper, we propose \textbf{Maniwhere}, a generalizable framework tailored for visual reinforcement learning, enabling the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zhecheng Yuan , Tianming Wei , Shuiqi Cheng , Gu Zhang , Yuanpei Chen , Huazhe Xu